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Topic: TOMY Remote Control R2-D2 at SWS.com (Read 11639 times)

Mine arrived yesterday. It is so cool!!! I cannot stress enough how well it works either. With shipping and tax it comes to almost $30. It seems a little high for just one figure, but I think it's worth it.

CrunchyNug! Long time no see! It's good to see you are still hanging around these parts. I remember making a trade with you for a POTJ Sandtrooper right when those things were impossible to find in the fall of 2001.

CrunchyNug! Long time no see! It's good to see you are still hanging around these parts. I remember making a trade with you for a POTJ Sandtrooper right when those things were impossible to find in the fall of 2001.

That's right my friend, I haven't managed to kick this habbit yet. I hope your Sandtrooper is happy with his new Evolutions recruits.

I still haven't ordered one of these but imagine my surprise when I was looking through robby.jp's email list this morning and saw what appears to be two more versions of this little guy

I'm not clear about whether they are exactly this item or not, though they did show the Tomy R2 in the same picture for comparison. I emailed Ryo for an answer on them and whether I interpreted the email correctly or not.

What the hell am I rambling about? It looks like they are doing two new versions of this RC droid:

R2-Q5 paint deco R4-P17 paint deco

Dale or Jeff can probably scavenge the image when they see the email and upload it. I can't do that currently.

I got a response from Ryo at Robby.jp and these are indeed more radio controlled Droids. He hasn't seen them personally (release date 03/31/06) but his impression is that they are just the same as the R2-D2 but repainted.

I love the RC-D2 so these two repaints are welcomed... This little "sub-category" of figures is cool by me. I'd even dig an RC version of other droids that rolled... Not anything too small, but something they could do to-scale like the mining droids or whatnot. R5-D4 would be cool too and you could make him do a donut and topple over just like the real droid.

It'd be cool by me other than the price, but being sorta "premium" items I'm ok with that price even.